Hey guys, sorry it feels like it's been forever since I've updated anything! Sorry, it's just school is being a pain in the ass so now I have no time to ever do anything anymore (That's why this one is so short!)! But next week is Spring Break! So I'll probably be able to get a lot done then, I just hope you don't hate me ...

Disclaimer: I do not own 'Naruto' but I wish I did.

Breaking the Habit

Part 10

I focused all my thought and energy on the guy in front of me, I've probably been doing this for the five or ten minutes trying desperately to get some answers to this damn written test. Screw this! I though in anger opening my eyes and flopping back into the chair. I picked up my pencil and kept tapping it on my sheet of paper with the side that has the eraser. How the hell am I going to cheat without getting caught?

I almost felt like throwing the pencil and test at Ibiki's, our proctor, head and screaming at us for giving us something to stupid and impossible. The hit me, no not an object. What about the Tiger Curse that Kakashi sensei told me I had? It must be able to do something. Alright! Let's see the answers!

Nothing.

Okay, be that way then ... Can't you make me write down the answers or SOMETHING?

Nothing.

Fine, forget it ...

I glanced down at the paper yet again for the millionth time. "Holy shi-!" I shouted out at random, everyone in the entire room turned around and stared at me with raised eyebrows. I quickly cover me test with my arms and blushed. "Sorry, I, um, yeah. Sorry." They all returned to what they were doing and I just made sure. Smooth move Chi ...

I uncovered the test and stared at it. The answers were all there. All of them. Every single freaking one. Every- You get the point.

That was ... Easy enough ...

Ibiki would soon announce the tenth question in about any minute now. And I was feeling confident.

"Okay, times up, I'm going to give you the tenth question now." He said. "But first there are a few rules. The first one is called the hopeless rule, you have a choice of taking the tenth question or not. However if you do not wish to take it you will fail the test regardless if your other question are right or wrong. Raise you hand now if you do not want to take it and you can leave."

You would've had to be insane if you raised your hand. Not one person in the entire room held up their palm or left.

"Alright then. The second rule is if you chose to take the tenth question and get it wrong ... You fail and you will lose the privilege of participating in the Chuunin exam, forever. Leave now if you don't want to take the risk."

"What?" I whispered in shock. "No way ... " I remembered what Kakashi sensei saying everything about having to be a full team to participate. Suddenly a thousand different thing were running though my head.

Naruto will never be able to do it! What if I take it and get it wrong? What will I do? What if we all get it wrong? What then? I could just raise my hand and wait until next year to become Chuunin, but I might let down Sasuke, Sakura, and most of all Naruto! What if I ... No I can't do that ether! God, why the heck does Ibiki have to make everything impossible to figure out?

I ran a hand though my hair and let out a long sigh. Already quite a bit of people and their teams quit and left. I looked around to see if I could find Naruto. I spotted him slowly raising up his shaking arm. I smiled Do it Naruto, I don't know much about the others but I'll still forgive you.

He slammed his hand down on to the desk and announced he was ready to take the tenth question no matter what the outcome would be.

After he said that it was like he gave everyone more then enough confidence to continue.

Ibiki glanced around the room with a serious look. "You all pass! There was no suck thing as a tenth question! Congratulations!"

Ibiki explained the tenth question was a two choice problem, to take it or not. "The tests purpose lies in the first rule: That your pass or fail decisions were based on your three person teams." I fake coughed. "And for few of you four person teams. The point was to put lots of pressure on you so you would strive not to let down your teams. However, the current exam problems could not be solved by any Genin so the exam was to make every one initially assume that they must cheat. We snuck in two Chuunins who knew all the answers in to the exam so they would be main targets or cheating. We wanted all of you to use your stealth in order to test how well refined your skills were."

He also told us a similar real life mission that carried heavy risks and how courage and confidence are necessary. And you need to be stead foot in unwavering decisions.

Suddenly the window crashed open and a woman with short navy blue hair that looked like she was in her early/mid twenties stood in front of us. She said her name was Mitarashi Anko and she was our next proctor for the next part of the Chuunin exam. She also told us to meet her at the forty forth training area tomorrow morning.

"So, what did you think of the test?" I asked Sasuke.

We were sitting outside on the roof of his house in the dark, but it was light enough to see each other clearly.

"It was simple."

"Yeah right, I bet you had to cheat like everyone else using your Sharingan." I said grinning.

"Yeah, I bet you had to cheat to."

"Uh huh, so what if I did?"

"I wouldn't be surprised, practically everyone did."

"I just said that. What do you think we'll be doing for the second part anyway?"

"I don't know, they'll probably make it a lot harder and more risky then the first."

"I hope so; it seems like forever since I've done something exiting and risk taking at the same time. I mean, you do get all the action and stuff in all the missions we've done so far."

"I've noticed."

"You're not the only one. Do you think it will life threatening?" I asked not one bit scared to even think what tomorrow would bring.

"Maybe, maybe not. I have no clue what they gonna do to us."

"Yeah me too, I just hope it's not another written test."

"Chances are it won't."

"Probably, were you surprised when raised his hand for a second?" I wondered out load half changing the subject.

"Yes and no because I figured he might think he wouldn't be able to do it and because I know how much me wants to become Hokage."

"I think over half the world knows he wants to."

"The worlds a big place. You want to become Hokage to don't you? You said you did when Kakashi made us introduce our selves, don't you ever think he's just getting in your way or something?"

"Nah, not really. I'm not obsessive over it like he is, but I guess I would be pretty stunned if it actually happened."

"I think you would make a good Hokage, a ton better then Naruto could ever be."

"Don't under estimate Naruto, you never know." I told him. "And thanks."

"Don't mention it."

"So what do you wanna talk about now?"

"What did Kakashi tell you that one day in the woods and you couldn't tell anyone."

"Sasuke ... "

"I won't tell anyone."

"No, I can't, I promised him."

"Okay, whatever."

"It'd getting cold, wanna go inside?"

"Sure."

We jumped off the roof on to the small deck and then climbed in to the window that we left open. I got inside and laid down on the floor and closed my eyes. "What time is it?" I asked. "I'm tried ... "

"It's almost midnight."

"No wonder, I'm gonna rest up for tomorrow okay?"

"Are you just gonna sleep on the floor then?" He asked and pointed at the floor.

"Yes ... You got a problem with that?"

"No."

"Good."

"Whatever, I'm going to my room then." He said walking away.

"Okay." I laid there for a minute and sighed.

"Chi, come on you need to get up."

"No ... Just give me a few more minutes."

"No"

"Fine." I got up. "When do we need to get going?"

"In half an hour."

"Okay, I'm getting something to eat then."

"I only have cereal left."

"Okay, where's the kitchen?"

"Over there." Sasuke pointed to a door across the room (A/N: I have no clue what his place looks like so I'm just making stuff up. Hell, I don't even know if he lives in a house ... )

I ate then took a quick five minute shower and got dress in a navy shirt and shorts, courtesy of Sasuke. We walked out and headed towards the forty forth training area.

When we arrived Anko, our proctor for the second part of the Chuunin exam, handed out consent forms to each of us. "What are these for?" Some one asked.

She told us they were forms we had to sign and fill out incase we die during the time we're in the Forest of Death and that we were some what okay with it.

She soon explained what we had to do to finish the second part of the test. She said it was a survival exam this time and what we have to do is be locked in a circular region by four locked gate entrances. There is a river, a forest, and in an area in the middle of the Forest of Death is a tower. The Forest of Death is also infested to vicious monsters and poisonous plants. The exam consists of a competition over two scrolls which are evenly spit among all of the twenty six teams. Each team receives either a scroll of Heaven or a scroll of Earth. To pass a team must bring both scrolls to the tower within five days, which means only at least half of the teams will pass while the other fail. Also because the exam is taken in teams if any team loses a member the entire team will fail. And once the consent is signed and filled out no one is allowed to give up during the five days in the forest. The main rules were:

A team that is unable to bring both scrolls to the tower with the tree will fail.

Any team that losses a team mate or produces and unrecoverable member will fail.

Teams are not allowed to look inside the scrolls until they reach the tower.

Anko also said that the test is to determine reliability and everyone will begin at the same time. Or if you put it in much simpler terms, we all have to stay locked in the Forest of Death for five days with whatever the hell might be in there, retrieve two scrolls and make sure we don't die on the way.

I sat down beside a tree and rested my head on it. I sighed then read over the consent form at least a billon times, made sure I was doing the right thing and then signed it.

They called up each team one by one to hand in the forms and get the scroll. When they called Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, and I up we did the same.

They placed us at Gate sixteen and we waited for the signal to start.

IMPORTANT: H'okay, I decided I might be re-writing some or the chapters and fix them up and stuff but I'll still be putting up new chapters and stuff ... But when I do they'll say 'rewrite' beside the chapter thing and you probably should read them or whatever since I might and probably will add stuff in the parts I've re-done that'll effect the later parts in my fanfiction.

Once again I'm really, REALLY sorry for taking sooooooooooooooooooooooooo long!

-Kai